How emotion is made and measured Export

@article{citeulike:1181538, abstract = {How we design and evaluate for emotions depends crucially on what we take emotions to be. In affective computing, affect is often taken to be another kind of information--discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it often relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as anthropological and historical accounts of emotion, we explore an alternative perspective on emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. We demonstrate how this model leads to new goals for affective systems--instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity. In developing from emotion as objective, externally measurable unit to emotion as experience, evaluation, too, alters focus from externally tracking the circulation of emotional information to co-interpreting emotions as they are made in interaction.}, author = {Boehner, Kirsten and Depaula, Rogerio and Dourish, Paul and Sengers, Phoebe}, booktitle = {Evaluating affective interactions}, citeulike-article-id = {1181538}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1225302.1225522}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.11.016}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WGR-4MVN0CB-1/2/b40616bd63b521d1270d6807171fc7e1}, doi = {10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.11.016}, journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies}, keywords = {emocion, endocrinos, las, memoria}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {275--291}, posted-at = {2009-09-18 23:18:36}, priority = {2}, title = {How emotion is made and measured}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.11.016}, volume = {65}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1181538 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1181538 N2 - How we design and evaluate for emotions depends crucially on what we take emotions to be. In affective computing, affect is often taken to be another kind of information--discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it often relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as anthropological and historical accounts of emotion, we explore an alternative perspective on emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. We demonstrate how this model leads to new goals for affective systems--instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity. In developing from emotion as objective, externally measurable unit to emotion as experience, evaluation, too, alters focus from externally tracking the circulation of emotional information to co-interpreting emotions as they are made in interaction. IS - 4 JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies EP - 291 TI - How emotion is made and measured VL - 65 T2 - Evaluating affective interactions SP - 275 KW - emocion KW - endocrinos KW - las KW - memoria AU - Boehner, Kirsten AU - Depaula, Rogerio AU - Dourish, Paul AU - Sengers, Phoebe PY - 2007/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.11.016 ER -